It's just this simple:
And in the dying embers
These are my main regrets:
When I’m right no one remembers;
When I’m wrong no one forgets.
Author: Don't know, but I bet it was a Weather Forecaster. ;-)
Let's start over - March will come in like a lamb....High pressure has moved in and will dominate the Iowa weather pattern thru Thursday. Temps will reach the Mid 40's tomorrow before a weak/dry cold front passes late afternoon - Temps will drop back to normal Wed.
Thursday: Temps will rebound back to the Low 40's as High Pressure moves East - at the same time, an Upper Level system will move West-East across Iowa giving us a shot at some Freezing Drizzle during the morning - then Aftn Isolated Rainshowers..
The weekend: Here we go again. It's looking like what we just went thru this weekend - Low Pressure will develop in the Tx Panhandle and move Northeast into Central Mo. by late Friday - and moves quickly NE by midday Sat. Snow totals look minimal right now - but like always - the true track is everything. I'll have a better handle thru the week - better handle than I had for the last one......
Today 28th: Sunny - Breezy thru sunset. High: 30
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Tuesday/Feb 1st: P/cloudy and Dry. High/Low: 44/18
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Wednesday/2nd: Breezy/Increase clouds late. High/Low: 32/20
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Thursday/3rd: Morning FzDrizzle - then Isolated Rainshowers and Breezy. High/Low: 42/24
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Friday/4th: Lt Rain changing to Lt Snow Late. High/Low: 43/34
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Saturday/5th: Morning Lt Snow - then Dry. High/Low: 38/28
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Sunday thru Tues/6th-8th: Lt Snow Sun/Mon - Then a Winter Mess with Rain/Snow/Ice Tues.
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Wed and Thurs/9th-10th: Snowshowers Wed - Dry Thurs.
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Fri and Sat/11th-12th: Dry.
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Sun thru Tues/13th-15th: Dry Sun - then Snow.
What we've see so far this Winter:
DECEMBER 2010 WAS SLIGHTLY COOLER AND DRIER THAN NORMAL...BUT HAD SLIGHTLY HIGHER SNOWFALL THAN NORMAL. THE TEMPERATURE NEVER DROPPED TO ZERO OR BELOW DURING THE MONTH...WHICH HAPPENS ABOUT 30 PERCENT OF THE TIME.
THERE WERE NOT TOO MANY EXTREME WEATHER EVENTS. WE HAD JUST UNDER 10 INCHES OF SNOWFALL FOR THE MONTH, BUT PERHAPS THE MOST SIGNIFICANT EVENT WAS WHEN THE HIGH TEMPERATURE REACHED 61 DEGREES ON DECEMBER 30TH... WHICH WAS 2 DEGREES SHY OF THE RECORD. ACCORDING TO THE CLIMATE HISTORY...THE OBSERVED TEMPERATURE AT DES MOINES DURING THE LAST WEEK OF DECEMBER HAS ONLY BEEN ABOVE 60 DEGREES 8 OTHER TIMES OVER THE PAST 132 YEARS.
JANUARY 2011 WILL GO INTO THE RECORD BOOKS AS A COLDER THAN NORMAL MONTH WITH PRECIPITATION BEING ONLY SLIGHTLY WETTER THAN THE NORMAL.THERE WERE NO DAILY TEMPERATURE OR PRECIPITATION RECORDS ESTABLISHED.
THERE WERE ONLY 2 DAYS DURING JANUARY WHEN THE LOW TEMPERATURE DROPPED BELOW 0...WITH A NORMAL JANUARY DRAWING 7 DAYS WITH SUB ZERO READINGS.
THERE WERE ONLY 5 DAYS IN JANUARY THAT DID NOT RECEIVE ANY FORM OF PRECIPITATION. OF THE 26 DAYS THAT RECEIVED PRECIPITATION...11 OF THEM WERE MEASURED AMOUNTS AND 15 DAYS ONLY RECEIVED TRACE AMOUNTS. OVERALL...THE MONTHLY TOTAL OF 1.07 INCHES WAS ONLY 0.04 INCHES ABOVE THE NORMAL.
PRELIMINARY FEB 2011 SUMMARY: WE HAD A MONTHLY HIGH TEMPERATURE OF 68 DEGREES ON THE 17TH, AND MONTHLY LOW -7 ON THE 8TH. WE HAD 9 DAYS WITH TEMPS ABOVE 32 DEGREES, 9 DAYS BELOW 32 DEGREES, AND 6 DAYS BELOW 0 DEGREES. WE HAD A DAILY AVERAGE HIGH OF 35.1 DEGREES, AND A AN AVERAGE LOW OF 18.1 - GIVING US AN AVERAGE MONTHLY TEMP OF 26.7 DEGREES - THAT WAS +0.3 ABOVE THE AVERAGE FEB TEMPERATURE......
PRECIPITATION: WE HAD 0.80" OF WATER EQUIVALENT - 0.31" BELOW THE MONTHLY AVERAGE. WE HAD 10.3 INCHES OF SNOW FALL (6.4" FELL ON FEB 1ST). OUR GREATEST SNOW DEPTH WAS 12 INCHES ON FEB 2ND. WE'VE HAD 5 CLEAR, 15 PARTLY CLOUDY, AND 8 CLOUDY DAYS THRU-OUT THE MONTH.
WE HAD MAXIMUM WIND REPORTED ON FEB 1ST OF 41MPH.
5 DAYS WITH FOG (4 OF THOSE DAYS HAD VIS BELOW 1/2 MILE - 2 OF THOSE WERE DUE TO BLOWING SNOW).
3 DAYS WHEN THUNDER WAS REPORTED (ALL 3 DAYS HAD HAIL OR ICE PELLETS).
6 DAYS WITH FREEZING RAIN OR DRIZZLE.
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